temporary expedient
Example Sentences
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Most employers viewed this as a temporary expedient.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2022
Whatever his intentions, that agreement proved little more than a temporary expedient until the war in the north was won.
From Salon • Dec. 24, 2019
The ECB authorized the temporary expedient last week when it stopped accepting Greek government bonds in return for funding.
From Newsweek • Feb. 12, 2015
Most of EFTA's seven members view their association as a temporary expedient that they would like to do away with�if they could only get into the stronger six-nation Common Market.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pacific by temperament and conviction, they resignedly accepted military discipline as a temporary expedient, a purgatorial ordeal, and went about the while with a sense of displacement, the longing of exiles to get back.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
